I have two pork butts weighing in at about 18.5 lbs, a whole brisket at 12.5 lbs, and a couple racks of baby back ribs sitting in the fridge right now. Plan is to put the butts and brisket on about 10:00 or so tonight and the ribs will go on sometime late morning tomorrow. We have some friends coming over to eat with us tomorrow evening. I hope everyone has a good Memorial Day Weekend!

Put the butts and brisket on about 10:00 last night. Temps held pretty steady through the night and I'm getting 5 1/2 to 6 hours per basket of charcoal. Brisket temp is 172 and the butts are at 174. Both have been through the plateau as they hung at about 165-167 for about 4 hours or so. Just put on two racks of baby backs and will put some apple in for smoke in a little bit.

Hope everyone is enjoying the weekend. Yesterday, I pulled the first butt off the CG at 15.5 hours, double wrapped in foiled and a towel and put in the ice chest. At 17 hours, the probe slipped in and out rather easily in the brisket so I pulled and added a towel around the foil and put in the ice chest. The second butt came off at 18 hours and the two racks of baby backs came off at about 5:30 after about 6.5 hours. Sorry about the absence of pictures, we had guests over and I was focused on getting the food on the table.

I pulled one of the butts and added some home-made sauce. There was a good thick bark and a nice smoke ring. The ribs turned out nicely with a good smoke ring. The brisket was one of the juiciest and most tender that I've ever fixed. This time around, I decided to foil the brisket (never have before) after reading the e-mail from TexasBBQRub. After about 8 hours, I pulled the brisket, put it in foil and added about 1/2 can of Dr Pepper. I pulled it at about 200 degrees when the probe slid in and out easily. I allowed the brisket to rest for about 1 1/2 to 2 hours and it was absolutely wonderful. Guess I'll be doing the same thing more often

Had plenty of leftovers, so I broke out the Foodsaver and put quite a bit of the pulled pork, one rack of ribs, and some of the brisket in the freezer so we'll have plenty to enjoy in the future.

The combination of blue and jack cheeses not only had great flavor but melted much better than straight blue cheese would've.

I even managed to squeeze in some wings over the weekend. I brined/marinated them with the ingredients shown and then cooked them over low direct heat, but unfortunately they weren't as spicy as I would've liked.